Gas is high priced, so why are we still speeding?
In fact, younger people are less likely to drive — or even to have driver’s licenses — than past generations for whom driving was a birthright and the open road a symbol of freedom. Research by Michael Sivak of the Transportation Research Institute at the University of Michigan found that young people are getting driver’s licenses in smaller numbers than previous generations.
Online life might have something to do with the change, he suggested. “A higher proportion of Internet users was associated with a lower licensure rate,” he wrote in a recent study. “This finding is consistent with the hypothesis that access to virtual contact reduces the need for actual contact among young people.”
AgentR11 wrote:Gas being more expense than it used to be is not the same as gas being high priced...
Beery1 wrote:many folks making minimum wage are finding that today's gas prices make driving to work too expensive......
C8 wrote:BTW- how do you post the little avatar next to your name?
And then you have to wait for them to make a left turn.C8 wrote:But it exasperates some around me who zoom around and, well, race to a red light.
Beery1 wrote:Because we're the dumbass species - Homo Bardus.
On the other hand, there are a few of us who don't own anything that burns gasoline, so some of us are at least not quite so stupid. I've never owned a car - I drive a bicycle. Hard to speed on a bicycle, although I have done it accidentally on occasion.
Plantagenet wrote:Beery1 wrote:many folks making minimum wage are finding that today's gas prices make driving to work too expensive......
Of course. Thats why you shouldn't get a college degree in liberal arts.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
John_A wrote:
In the peak oil world, the Beery1 is like...a ROCK STAR!!
Unfortunately, with the trillions that appear to be left in the ground, yet to burn as it were, it might be awhile. But as long as I even need a few gallons a month, those who can use none, thereby directly removing themselves from the "funding of foreign jihadist supporters and the Albertan government" chain.
Tanada wrote:I think maybe you missed a possible explanation. For many people the economy is scary, either they have lost a job, their spouse has lost a job or they fear they will lose their job. When they get behind the wheel of a moving vehicle instead of being at the whim of forces beyond their control suddenly they are in control of their own destiny. Drive fast, change lanes, blow a stop sign...it is all their decision and if they do it wrong they get the punishment of an accident or a ticket as a result. Even if the result is a negative one it comes about because of what they chose to do. They are in control, not the boss, not the economy, they themselves control their own destiny, as long as they are in the driver seat making the decisions.
ralfy wrote:John_A wrote:
In the peak oil world, the Beery1 is like...a ROCK STAR!!
Unfortunately, with the trillions that appear to be left in the ground, yet to burn as it were, it might be awhile. But as long as I even need a few gallons a month, those who can use none, thereby directly removing themselves from the "funding of foreign jihadist supporters and the Albertan government" chain.
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